If you're looking to spend a little time with Obi-Wan Kenobi ahead of his Disney Plus series starting later this month, Star Wars: Brotherhood is a breezy, exciting way to do so.
There's a sense that their paths aren't set yet, creating genuine tension even though we know the movie and TV show characters have to make it out alive. All of the characters feel true to who they are at this point in the timeline, with plenty of clever emotional callbacks and references, and the writing doesn't lean too hard into who we know they'll become. This is her earliest chronological encounter with Obi-Wan and Anakin - it's entertaining to see their early reactions and the seeds of a deadly rivalry being planted.Ĭhen's subtlety is the key to all this. The author previously wrote a Palpatine story for the 2020 anthology From a Certain Point of View: The Empire Strikes Back, so seeing him return to the character is satisfying.Īlso representing the dark side is Asajj Ventress, Dooku's apprentice and an iconic villain of The Clone Wars. Chen even slips in a scene with Palpatine and Anakin it's always delicious to be a fly on the wall as the sneaky Sith Master whispers in the troubled young man's ear and pushes him along the path to becoming Darth Vader.
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